Re: some Debian newbie backports questions
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 09:54:21AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> Harald Jenny schrieb am Saturday, den 25. September 2010:
>
> Hi,
Hello
>
> > I'm new to backporting so please be patient if my questions are already
> > answered somewhere else and I did not find it. My questions are:
> >
> > Building my package on testing currently requires debhelper (>= 7.1) which is
> > obviously newer than the version in stable - should rather the depedency be
> > lowered to 7.0.15 ignoring the
> >
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
> >
> > messages or should the package rather build-depend on the debhelper version
> > from backports?
> Please use the backport.
Ok (was afraid it wouldn't build inside build environment then ;-) ).
>
> > Further lintian throws some messages:
> >
> > W: openswan-modules-source: unknown-section kernel
> > W: openswan-modules-dkms: unknown-section kernel
> > E: openswan-doc: postinst-does-not-call-installdocs usr/share/doc-base/openswan
> > E: openswan-doc: prerm-does-not-call-installdocs usr/share/doc-base/openswan
> > W: openswan-dbg: unknown-section debug
> >
> > Can/should they be ignored and if not what would be the correct sections/fix?
> Don't use linitian for backports. Its useless.
So all lintian message found in a previous run can be ignored correct?
>
> Alex
Harald
>
>
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